Kids, kitties, kitchen (and rainbows)

I really need to catch up with some older photos, so here is an overload of everything on my camera!

A few weeks ago, we visited the cousins. Zachary took Dane for a ride in the go-cart.

Ellie and Nora road the 4-wheeler with Mike (the invisible man).

We went to Milnor a couple of weekends ago for an all-school reunion.  I didn't take many pictures, but here is one of Dane and Nora enjoying the pool Grampy and Grammy set up in their yard. Grampy even ran the hose from inside the house so the water was nice and warm.  (When I was a kid, he made us use the cold outside well water.  Funny how that works!)

Nora gets a little help from Grandpa Paul.

Nora loves to hang from monkey bars!

Building and destroying sand castles on the beach this past weekend.

Our fearless flyer!

All wrapped up after swimming.  You must zoom in on Nora's face- she looks so sweet here it almost makes my heart skip a beat every time I look at her!  It's no wonder she's a little bit spoiled...

Fishing and swimming with cousin Morgan.

Uncle Mark and Daddy filleted all the sunfish and we had a delicious fish fry supper!

Full moon rising while out for an evening walk down our driveway.  The neighbor is renting the pasture around our place right now, so we have cattle to keep us company.

Nora and Dane helped Daddy paint our mailbox yesterday.  I will have to take a new picture of the finished product sometime. They did a great job!

Now for the kitties portion of the post.  Nora continues to love her kitties! This picture makes me smile- Nora is grimacing because Sunny is getting bigger every day and almost weighs as much as she does, her sunglasses are upside down, and Sunny is so relaxed (even purring!).  He still lets the kids drag him everywhere.

Rosie will occasionally humor the kids and allow them to carry her around.  However, she isn't nearly as calm or patient, as you can tell. (Of course it doesn't help that Nora has her in a headlock!)

Bessie doesn't let herself get into situations like the one above! 

The three pretty kitties on our deck this evening.

This is Zachary and Ellie's cat that they use as a living doll.  I suppose this is what our cats have to look forward to?

A couple of kitchen pictures...

cucumber water.

Steaming bread fresh from the oven one morning as the cattle graze in the pasture.

We have had a few recent rainstorms and beautiful rainbows.  This one was a couple of weeks ago.

And this one greeted me as I came out of the basement this evening after our tornado warning weather.

(The color is a little bit funny- I had to do some tweaking or the rainbow was hardly visible.)